Our class started with the beginning prayers..Sahanaavathu & then we meditated for 5 minutes. We took attendance & greeted everybody with a "Hari Om". Then we did the Guru Stotram upto the 4th verse. We did the bhajan "Radhe Radhe Radhe".
Bhagvatham Time:
First we did the recap of the last class and moved on with the story. Today we talked about Narada Rishi & how King Praiksit Meets Kali.
The topic of the day consists of :
How was Bhagavatham written?
From the last class it was seen that all the diciples gathered around Sutaji & Saunaka rishi asked a question that how can one be happy for ever. Sutaji said that the answer was in the poem "Bhagavatam" which was composed by Sri Veda Vyasa. Sri Veda Vyasa was a very learned scholar who had written many Puranas, Mahabharata and the Vedas for the benefit of the people. But still he was not happy. One day Narada Rishi came to see him and advised him to sing the glories of the Lord. He asked him to teach the people why God takes different avataras and that way he is going to be happy.
Who is Naradaji??
Narada ji was the son of a servant lady who lived serving saints in the ashram. Narada Ji lived there hearing the glories of Bhagavan from the saints. It so happened that one day Narada Ji's mother got bitten by a snake and died and thus Narada Ji was left all alone. After this incident Narada Ji went to the forest for mediating and Bhagavan being happy with him blessed him by saying he will be reborn as Brahmaji's son. Few years later he died and was reborn again as the son of Brahmaji.
Pariksit Meets Kali
One day King Pariksit was going around and he was shocked to see a strange sight. A mean, well dressed man, Kali was torturing a white bull and a cow was standing close by and crying seeing this. The mean man had already pulled out three of the bull's leg and was about to cut out the fourth leg. Seeing this King Pariksit got angry and asked Kali why he was doing this to the poor animal. Then the King turned to the bull and cow and asked why he was doing this. The bull answered he didn't know why ..but some say may be due to past karmas. Pariksit thought deeply and realized that the bull was the personification of Dharma & the cow was of Mother Earth. And the four legs stands for Austerity, Purity, Kindness and Truthfulness. Of these, three has already been lost and only Truthfulness remains. We discussed the four words and their importance with the class.
We ended the day with our Aarati & Pledge. See you all in the next class.
Pushakala & Deepthy
